Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The banality of evil. David Codrea breaks story: USA Burke, in middle of F&F gunwalking culpability, opposes victim status for Terry family.

Banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal. -- Wikipedia.


US Attorney Dennis Burke, Phoenix, Arizona's most accomplished current practitioner of the banality of evil.

Regular readers will recall that Janet Napolitano's protege Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, is hip deep in the Gunwalker Scandal.

Now, David Codrea reports: US attorney opposes victim status for Terry parents in gun case.

PDF of filing.

There are times when no amount of expletives, no combination of words of condemnation, are sufficient to the need.

That this Gunwalker conspirator remains in his job to maintain the fiction of propriety that the cover-up demands is itself a crime and a sin. Yes, sin.

There is a special place in Hell for murderous bureaucrats such as Burke and his bosses. For power's sake, they are willing to wreak any havoc, blight any life, see anyone dead. Yes, there is special place in Hell for such people.

I can say no more.

I have no words sufficient to the need.

7 comments:

Aiken Patriot said...

They want no discovery. With a good civil lawyer, this could be as big as the Issa hearings.

Anonymous said...

"Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks." -- Forrest Gump

bondmen said...

His office is very well appointed and with a large window view of downtown Phoenix. Presumably he's well paid and benefited and luxuriously eats and drinks on US taxpayers. Who is he carrying water for, i.e., by orders from what higher up has he decided to punish, profane and sully the good reputation of a proud American policeman killed in the line of duty with firearms provided criminals by our Department of Justice? I wonder, just who does he see when he looks in the mirror? Dare we not utter his puerile, putrid name!

Anonymous said...

"The filing also maintained “The victim of the offenses is not any particular person, but society in general,'"

From Wikipedia: A society or a human society is: (1) a group of people related to each other through persistent relations;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society

Is there a more "persistent relationship" than father and son or mother and son?! Can you see how this essential relationship has been hideously subsumed by defining "society" in purely abstract terms?

By means of this conjuring trick, society has been stripped of all warmth, color and humanity, much like USAG Burke himself.

To conceal great crimes, it is first necessary to conceal the true meaning of words and Burke does this with consumate skill.

Contrary to popular opinion, these bureaucratic functionaries are not incompetent; they are evil. Take heed and make your preparations accordingly.

MALTHUS

Anonymous said...

USA Burke must argue that the Feds had nothing to do with the death or face impeachment for his control over the #Gunwalker scandal. He should recuse himself since he had a major role in the scandal that shipped weapons to Mexico purchased by known felons. His title ought to be "former US Attorney Burke". The Feds arrested Jaime Avila the day after Terry's death "because they had been watching him." They are not paid to watch - they are paid to arrest. But Burke instructed them to stand down when they wanted to do their job. He and Eric Holder and a whole lot of people have a lot of "splaining to do". It would help if they would start with the Terry family but they don't have the courage to face up to their failure and criminal behavior.

Anonymous said...

and i thought that jonny sutton was bad!bongo and his boys are dodging,lying and hiding but i don't think this is going away.watch for more exposure come 2012.

Robert Langham said...

If you drive the getaway car in a bank robbery, and your guys inside the bank kill someone, you can face the death penalty, so the folks who furnished a weapon to his killers ARE the same as the killers.